Featured Readers
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Seated L-R: Doralee Brooks & Joan Bauer
Standing L-R: Steffan Triplett, Lisa Alexander, & Kristofer Collins
Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.
Kristofer Collins is the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the
co-curator of The Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book The
River Is Another Kind of Prayer: New & Selected Poems was published in
2020 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His latest project, The Pittsburgh Book Review
can be found at https://pittsburghbookreview.blogspot.com/. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife, son and daughter.
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Lisa Alexander's full-length book throttlebody is
forthcoming from Get Fresh Books in 2023. Her poems have appeared or are
forthcoming in various journals including Tupelo Quarterly, 2 Bridges Review,
Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and The Burnside Review among others. She holds an
MFA in poetry from Drew
University and is a
longtime member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops. She was a sound
engineer for Prosody, the long-running radio show, and podcast that features
the work of national writers, for many years. With Kayla Sargeson, she
co-curates the Laser Cat reading series in Pittsburgh.
Doralee Brooks, professor emerita at the Community College
of Allegheny County in Developmental Studies, is a Madwoman in the Attic instructor
for Carlow University . She is a fellow of the
Western Pennsylvania Writing Project (95) and Cave Canem (97 and 99). She holds
an MEd from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Carlow University
. Her poems have appeared in Voices from the Attic, Paterson Literary Review,
Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Dos Passos Review among others. Doralee’s
chapbook, When I Hold You Up to the Light, won the 2019 Cathy Smith Bowers
Chapbook Contest published by Main Street Rag. She is City of Asylum ’s Poet Laureate of Allegheny County
2022-2024.
Steffan Triplett is a poet and essayist from Joplin , Missouri
. His essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Longreads, Lit Hub, Vulture,
and The Iowa Review. Steffan currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh
where he is the Assistant Director for the Center for African American Poetry
and Poetics. His first book, Bad Forecast, is forthcoming on Essay Press in
2024.
Steffan Triplett - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Sheila Squillante is a poet and essayist living
in Pittsburgh .
She is the author of the poetry collections Mostly Human (Brick House, 2020)
and Beautiful Nerve (Tiny Hardcore, 2015) as well as three chapbooks. Her debut
essay collection, All Things Edible, Random and Odd, will be published by CLASH
Books in 2023. She teaches in and directs the MFA program at Chatham University.
Unfortunately, Sheila was unable to participate in this reading.
Joan E.
Bauer is the
author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008)
and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a
teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the
Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a
finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more
than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a
Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with
Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season, is forthcoming
from Turning Point in 2023.
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